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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Georgios
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- medieval Greek
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
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- date of birth
- 1100-00-00
- date of death
- 1100-00-00
- floruit
- 1100-00-00
- writing language
- medieval Greek
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Encyclopedic overview
George Kedrenos, Cedrenus or Cedrinos (Greek: Γεώργιος Κεδρηνός, fl. 11th century) was a Byzantine Greek historian. In the 1050s he compiled Synopsis historion (also known as A concise history of the world), which spanned the time from the biblical account of creation to his own day. Kedrenos is one of the few sources that discuss Khazar polities in existence after the sack of Atil in 969 (see Georgius Tzul).
Material in Synopsis historion mostly comes from the works by Pseudo-Symeon Magistros (a version of Logothete's chronicle), George Syncellus, Theophanes the Confessor, and, starting from 811, almost exclusively and word-for-word from the chronicle by John Skylitzes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Georgios Kedrenos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.